Welcome to my blog---an eyes-open, no-holds-barred exploration of Western and Eastern spirituality, mindfulness, philosophy and literature. A member of the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association, I lectured at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry to mental health workers for 14 years and at the University of Technology, Sydney to law students for 16 years. My interests include metaphysics, the psychology of religion, transformative ritual, mythology and addiction recovery.

Now, I don’t interpret the Bible literally for the most part. For
me, the events in the life of Jesus depict and represent various stages in our
potential spiritual growth. Thus, doctrines such as the Incarnation, the Resurrection,
the Ascension and the Second Coming of Jesus have for me a deeper, more
spiritual meaning and importance than a literal reading might otherwise afford.
We can be resurrected at any time into newness of life, with our minds and
bodies being restored in any number of ways. We can ascend to greater heights
of understanding and achievement. As for the Second Coming, it can be right
upon us now. It is not a matter of whether Jesus will again appear in the
flesh.

In all my years of regularly attending Baptist and Anglican
churches I rarely, if ever, heard a sermon on the parable of the sheep and the
goats. I think the reason why preachers rarely speak on the topic of that
parable is simple--its message doesn't sit at all
well with the ‘believe and be saved’ evangelical interpretation of
Christianity.

In the parable of the sheep and the goat, in the 25th chapter of Matthew’s Gospel,
Jesus talks about the Day of Judgment. Now, once again, I do not actually think
there will be a literal day of judgment when some people will go to their
supposed reward in heaven while others will be sent to hell for everlasting
punishment. You can believe that if you wish but that is not how I see it. The
Day of Judgment occurs every day, and every minute of each day, when we get the
result in our lives and in our world of our thoughts, words and deeds.

According to the parable of the sheep and goats, everyone we
meet, everyone we serve, is in the image of Jesus, a personification of the divine.
The Anonymous Christ, as he or she is known, comes to us in so many ways, and we fail
to recognize that Jesus’ incarnation continues all the time, in us and in other
people. In the parable, Jesus talks about the Day of Judgment:

‘When
the Son of Man comesin his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his
glorious throne.All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separatethe people one from another as
a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

‘Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are
blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdomprepared for you since the
creation of the world.For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,I
needed clothes and you clothed me,I was sick and you looked after
me,I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

‘Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe
you?When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?”

‘The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

‘Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me,you who are cursed, into the
eternal fireprepared for the devil and his angels.For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me nothing to drink,I was a stranger and you
did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick
and in prison and you did not look after me.”

‘They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help
you?”

‘He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one
of the least of these, you did not do for me.”

‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous
to eternal life.’

Notice how the separation of sheep and goats is not on the basis
of what people believe or don’t believe. No, the separation takes place on the
basis of what people do or don’t do with their lives. The sheep are the ones
who feed the hungry, give a drink to the thirsty, invite in the stranger,
clothe those in need of clothes, look after the sick, and visit those in
prison. The goats are the ones who do none of those things.

The message of this parable seems lost on conservative Christians. They are so damn good at judging others on the basis of what they
believe or don’t believe yet they fail to realize that the Bible says they will
be judged on how well they have looked after their fellow humans---as respects
the provision of such things as food, water and clothes, and attending to the
needs of the homeless, the sick, and those in prison.

Many Buddhists I
know, even many atheists and
other secularists,
live lives that are so much more nobly and deeply and closely molded after that
of Jesus than those fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. I repeat, many
people, who would not identify as Christians, are real followers of the way of
Jesus. There is a hymn written by
Marguerite Pollard which contains this verse:

And there are some who love him well,
yet know not it is he they love;
he tends the holy fire within
and draws them to the heights above.

Of
course, many, if not most, of the people who Jesus declares to be ‘sheep’—true followers
of the way of Jesus—would not want to be called Christians. They have given up
on Christianity. Well, they have given up on Churchianity. I don’t blame them.
Far too many of the Christian churches have so grossly distorted the teachings
of Jesus, and far too many so-called Christians are so damn unappealing, that
the ‘sheep’ want nothing to do with Jesus. That is sad, because Jesus was a
revolutionary.

The
separation of sheep and goats takes no account of race, religion or ethnicity.
It takes no account of what people believe or don’t believe. The separation is
solely on the basis of what people do and don’t do with their lives. Deeds, not
creeds.

Advent
is all about the coming of the kingdom. Jesus envisioned a beloved community of
all humanity living in peace with one another. The good news of the Gospel is
that you don’t have to be a card-carrying Christian to seek, work for and
hasten the coming of that kingdom.

Have
a wonderful Christmas, all of you.

Image opposite. Detail of a stained glass window depicting the parable of the sheep and
the goats. Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Gunthorpe, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, in its article on the kingdom of God, explains that the
kingdom of God means not so much a goal to be attained or a place – although
those meanings are by no means excluded – it is rather a ‘tone of mind’ and an ‘influence
which must permeate [our] minds’ if we would be one with the Divine Life and
attain to its ideals. The kingdom of God refers to the rule or reign – the
sovereignty – of God in our hearts and minds. The kingdom of God is a past,
present and future reality all at the same time. It’s a very powerful concept,
full of meaning and beauty and wonder.

The Bible says that the kingdom of God is within [or among] us (Lk 17:21). Who or what is God? Well, God is love (1 Jn
4:8) and God is Spirit (Jn 4:24) –and that Spirit is LOVE. Another way of understanding Spirit is as pure Be-ing. So, if you think that God is a giant man 'up there' or 'out there', some
supra-personal Being with a face, body, arms and legs and a penis – sorry to be crude – then you are horribly mistaken. The concept of a personal God has misled and confused many, yet the concept is valid if properly understood. First, each person's understanding of the Divine is personal. Secondly, the heart of Christianity is personality in the sense that our personality is to be moulded by the Divine. Thirdly, it is a key assertion of Christianity that God can be known as a person--as a loving Father or Mother. ‘Anyone who has seen me [Jesus] has seen
the Father’ (Jn 14:9). So, who or what is God? As mentioned, God is love and Spirit. In other words, God is reality, truth, life and love in the most
absolute, infinite and eternal sense. God is pure Be-ing, and we have our be-ing-ness
in God. ‘For in himwe live
and move and haveour
being' (Acts 17:28). Jesus gave the world an entirely new conception of the Divine, and for Christians Jesus was and ever remains the supreme revelation we have of God as love.

The kingdom of God – also referred
to in Matthew’s Gospel as the ‘kingdom of heaven’ – is the realm of divine
ideas, producing their expression in us and others as the fulfilment of the
nature of the Divine. The kingdom is a ‘heavenly’ one – that is, one of ideas,
ideals, values and things not-of-this-world. The kingdom is an ideal state of
society, an ideal way of being and living – our highest good. In their classic text The Mission and Message of Jesus(New
York: E P Dutton and Co, 1938) by H
D A Major, T W Manson and C J Wright, all of whom were eminent scholars and theologians, H D A Major writes in Book I, on pages 36-37:

‘For Jesus the Kingdom was not objective, but subjective. Its
sphere was in the minds and hearts and souls of men. Where God reigns in a human
personality, there the Kingdom of God has come on earth, and it is for this
kind of advance of the Kingdom that Jesus taught His disciples to pray.’

Now, if you have trouble with the
word ‘God’, then substitute for it words such as life, truth and love – in
fact, anything representing the highest good. And if you have a problem with
the word ‘kingdom’, then substitute for it words such as ‘state of mind’,
‘presence’ and ‘positive influence and power’. It’s not the word or phrase that
matters but rather the reality behind the word or phrase. Never forget that.

‘… The
Kingdom of God is a powerful recreative force deep down in your personality
waiting to be summoned forth. When you do summon it and put it to work in your
life you will live with so much power that nothing can really upset you again,
at least not to the point of defeating you.’

Dr Peale often wrote and spoke
about the kingdom of God. And why not? After all, the subject was the very heart of
Jesus’ teachings. Peale would often say, ‘All of God’s values of strength,
peace, health, and happiness are built into you. All of the riches of God's great Kingdom are potentially resident in your mind. Let them operate freely. Release them into abundance.’
In his book The Power of Positive Thinking (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952), on page 62, Peale wrote in reference
to the kingdom of God that we have ‘within
our minds and personalities allthe potential powers and ability we need for constructive
living’. Got the idea?

Yes, Jesus’ parables were all about
the kingdom of God. Take, for example, this one. ‘First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of
wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens’ (Mk 4:28). The kingdom of God
is like that, said Jesus. Then there’s this parable. ‘The kingdom of heaven is
like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; and this is
smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the
garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in
its branches’ (Mt 13: 31-32). Now, that
is the kingdom of God in action and expression. The kingdom starts with an idea
and a presence – the Presence – and
it grows and grows.

Mindfulness is a lot like the
kingdom of God. It is a dynamic presence – a watchful, mindful presence and choiceless (that is, nonjudgmental) awareness of the content,
both internal and external, of the action of the present moment, from one such
moment to the next. Mindfulness is in
this world, but not of this world. Mindfulness affords insight and self-knowledge. It
is a state of power and oneness with the flow of life within you and outside of you. It is a state of pure be-ing-ness.
Mindfulness can be secular or religious, but if it is divorced from the ideals
to which I have referred -- especially the ideals of love and compassion for others, indeed for all living things -- it is an abomination. It is something to be shunned. Mindfulness must be more than a mere system or technique (ugh) of mental cultivation. True mindfulness embraces all things and recognises the fundamental unity of all life. True mindfulness empowers a person to be a better human being. Well, it can be that way.

A mustard tree

Mindfulness is not inherently
Christian, but neither is the kingdom of God. Did you hear that? Jesus was a
Jew, not a Christian, and he taught the idea of the kingdom of God to Jews and
to some who were not Jews. None of those to whom he spoke were Christians as there was no Christian Church then. However, you don’t need to be a Jew, or belong to
any religion for that matter, to experience the reality of what the Bible
refers to as the kingdom of God. You don’t even need to believe in God as such except in the sense of standing on the side of love, which is God. ‘Those who do not love, do not know God, because God is love’
(1 Jn 4:8). It follows that those who love know God, even if they are not explicitly aware of it. So, those who have love in their hearts experience the blessings of the kingdom. Wow, how’s that for heresy! But it’s true. My authority
for saying that is the life, ministry and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Bible. If
you are seeking love, life, truth, peace,
health and happiness, then the kingdom of God is for you – and is yours, right
now!

I am firmly of the view that what
I have said above is one hundred percent Biblical, but I suspect that it is still more
than enough to give Christian fundamentalists apoplexy. Never mind. I don’t
write for them. I don’t truck with them and they don’t truck with me. I have
been a fierce and tireless opponent of religious bigotry and narrow-mindedness
all my life, and I am not about to stop now. Too many so-called Christians
preach a ‘gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ’ – their commonly used expression –
which, with its butcher-shop theology, is about as far removed from the ‘gospel
of God’ (cf Mt 1:14) proclaimed by Jesus as you can get. They have a religion about Jesus as opposed to the religion of Jesus. The latter is the religion Jesus taught and by which he
lived and died. That is the true Christianity.

The essence of the 'gospel of God' -- the real good news of the kingdom -- preached by Jesus at the very beginning, and right throughout the entire period, of his public ministry is encapsulated in this verse from the New Testament: ‘The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent and believe the gospel.’ (Mk 1:15). The nature and substance of God is love. Where God rules in peoples' hearts and lives, love rules. That means there needs to be an inward change of mind, affections, convictions and commitments -- a complete turnaround in one's life (repentance, to use a Biblical word). And what of 'faith' -- faith in God? Put simply, faith is the living and lived response of a person to the revelation of God as love in the person of Jesus. It is not something intellectual. It is something lived out in one's daily life. 'Do this and you will live' (Lk 10:28).

When you come to experience the
fullness of life in a truly selfless, self-sacrificing way – living deeply and
mindfully, and loving and growing spiritually more and more with each passing day – you
are then living in the kingdom of God. In the words of theologian H D A Major, the kingdom is 'the summum bonum [that is, the highest good or ultimate goal] of the individual' (The Mission and Message of Jesus, Book I, page 37).

The kingdom of God is a way of
being and living – a state and tone of mind. So is mindfulness. Both are in the world but not of the world. Both can be yours – right now!

Friday, November 18, 2016

I truly believe that one can judge the moral decency of a society by looking at how well that society attends to the needs of the sick, the elderly, the marginalised and others in great need of assistance such as refugees and asylum seekers. Many Western nations do not measure up well by that yardstick.

The article describes how a program which provides workshops on
art making and mindfulness meditation has supported individuals in moving
forward after traumatic experiences. The authors of the article state that the ‘overlap
between art therapy and mindfulness in this context represent the realities of
the suffering of the participants as well as the possibility of working towards
enhancing coping and resilience.’

Both mindfulness and art therapy have been used with survivors
of trauma for some time now. The article published in The Arts in
Psychotherapy looks at how a combination of the two can help refugees and
asylum seekers acknowledge human suffering and traumatic life events while at
the same time recognises the resilience that exists and the search for healing,
health and growth.’

The two activities are inherently therapeutic and when used in
combination there appears to be a synergistic effect, facilitating the
expression of feelings associated with trauma, suffering and the problems
associated with coping (for example, anger, rage, vulnerability and depression).

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Friday, November 4, 2016

Now, as Richard Nixon used to say, let me make this perfectly clear. Mindfulness is not
Buddhist. Well, certainly not exclusively or inherently so, and even as respects
Buddhism mindfulness is only one aspect of one particular tradition in
Buddhism. Mindfulness is universal. It
is grounded in the human experience of living fully from one moment to the
next.

You can find mindfulness in all religious and
spiritual traditions, including Christianity. What’s more, you can find
mindfulness outside of religious and spiritual traditions.

For the most part, the
mindfulness that I teach is outside mainstream religious and spiritual
traditions, although I do draw from a number of those traditions where I think they
are making a valid point, that is, a point of universal importance and one that
is generally in the nature of a self-evident truth. Of course, a self-evident
truth is not always readily apparent or discernible to people. However, once a
self-evident truth is properly understood, you are justified
in affirming it as true.

In a previous post I looked at mindfulness in
the Christian tradition. In this post, I want to focus on some good advice from
the Bible. It’s from the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). It is from both the
Jewish and Christian traditions, but the advice is good for all of us, even for
those who claim not to believe in a God.

The Hebrew Scriptures advise us to know God by
becoming still: ‘Be still and know that I am God’ (Psalm 46:10).

Who or what is God? Some dubious theological
construct, one that some people have made up in their minds in an attempt to
explain the mystery of life, but which doesn’t actually exist in objective
reality? Well, the Bible elsewhere refers to God as the One ‘in whom we live
and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:28). For me, ‘God’, when I use the word, which
is not that often, refers to the one universal Presence and Power active in the
universe, the medium (that is, order or level of reality) in which all things
have their very be-ing-ness. God, if
you choose to use the word at all – and you need not – is the Supreme Being,
and we have our be-ing-ness, our very existence, in that Being.

Back to Psalm 46:10. There is so much in that
short verse. The first thing to note is the importance of being still, if we
are to come to know and experience the larger reality that the Bible refers to
as ‘God’. In explaining this verse to people I sometimes break it up like this:

‘Be still and know that I am God’

‘Be still and know that I am …’

‘Be still and know …’

‘Be still …’

‘Be …’

If you experience the verse – note that word ‘experience’
– that way I truly believe that you will come to know and experience what some
choose to call God. You can call it whatever you like. It doesn’t really
matter. As J. Krishnamurti used to say, over and over again, ‘The word [in this
case, God] is not the thing.’ It’s the reality – the experience – behind and
beyond the word that really matters. Indeed, it is all that matters.

One of my spiritual mentors was
the lateDr Norman Vincent Peale.
He helped millions of troubled people in his long lifetime. He gave some
wonderful advice on how to still the mind and the body. He often said that you
cannot still the mind until the body has become still. First, still--- that is,
relax---the body, and then the mind will follow. Dr Peale wrote, ‘Sit still, be
silent, let composure creep over you.' Then you will be still. That's why Psalm 46:10 says, 'Be still ...' It's not a matter of do-ing but be-ing.

Jesus preached the 'kingdom of God' (referred
to in Matthew’s
gospel as the ‘kingdom of Heaven’). For me, the Kingdom of God is that state of
being and consciousness that is often referred to as the eternal now. There is an eternal, that is, atemporal, quality
about the now. It is forever new. The
present moment has its unfolding in the Now. The past is no more than the
expression of a present reality,
being a present ‘window link’ to the eternity of the Now. Any memories of the
past are a present reality. It’s the
same as respects the future, for any ideas about or hopes for the future are present ideas and hopes. You see, the
present is simply that which presents itself before us in and as the Now. So,
the present embraces past, present and future. What's more, the kingdom of God is not only a 'place' of inner strength and power, it's also a repository of stillness and quietude.

Back,
once again, to Psalm 46:10. ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ First, the ‘knowledge’
spoken of is not book knowledge. Not at all. It is an inner knowing. Secondly,
note those words ‘… I am God.’ Now, I am not saying that you and I are God,
although I do say that you and I, as well as all other persons and things, have
their be-ing-ness in God. Now, those words ‘I am God’. God is the Great I Am,
that is, the presence and power of pure Being. What’s more, that pure Being is the
very be-ing-ness of the person that you are.

When you
enter the silence, you are approaching the very presence of be-ing –
that is, sheer existence … the very livingness of life itself.
The state of mind experienced in the silence is not one of passivity or
non-action. No, it is a truly awakened state of mind and
be-ing-ness in which all things are experienced as new and
fresh in the omnipresent eternal now.

In time, and with regular practice, the action of being fully and choicelessly present
in the moment from one moment to the next – the essence of mindfulness and
living mindfully – will quicken and intensify.

The essence of Christianity is the
experience of coming to know God – the larger reality – in the form, and through
the person, of Jesus. What’s so special about Jesus? Well, among other things, Jesus
lived and was fully grounded in the eternal now. His strength, power and peace were the result of his being at-one with the source of all life and being, and his living fully in the eternal now. That is why he said, ‘My kingdom is
not of this world’ (John 18:36). Now, as I see it, Jesus was not saying that his
kingdom was on some supposed ‘higher’ order or level of reality. No, the kingdom
of which Jesus spoke is one that that we enter when we live in the eternal now.
It is the very reason why Jesus said that he had come. ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the
full’ (John 10:10). Abundant living. Living mindfully in the eternal now.
Living selflessly. Living lovingly.

‘Our findings not only demonstrate that meditation
improves emotional health, but that people can acquire these benefits
regardless of their ‘natural’ ability to be mindful,’ said Dr Yanli Lin, lead
author on the study. ‘It just takes some practice.’

The team asked 68 participants to either listen to
an 18-minute audio meditation guide or a control presentation on learning a new
language. Each person was then shown upsetting images, including photos of
corpses, while hooked up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) which recorded their
brain activity. All participants were female; the authors argued this meant
they did not have to account for gender differences relating to regulating emotions.

Previous studies have
shown that LPP ‘reflects a global inhibition of activity in visual cortex,
resulting in the selective survival of activity associated with the processing
of the emotional stimulus’. It is part of an emotional coping mechanism, and in
this study it was argued that it proved those who meditated could control their
negative emotions and recover quickly.

The Michigan team found the results in the group
that meditated were similar to those found in prior studies on ‘naturally
mindful’ people, ‘suggesting that the benefits of mindfulness can be cultivated
through practice’.

It seems that, like most other things, practice is the key to success. In that
regard, the researchers found that when individuals were specifically
instructed to ‘be mindful’, when looking at the distressing photos, the LPP was
not impacted at all, ‘indicating that deliberate engagement in [a] state [of] mindfulness
may not be an effective form of emotion regulation in meditation novices’.

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